TITiPI - SoLiXG

As a researcher for The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) under the CHANSE funded project [SoLiXG], together with Femke Snelting, Helen Pritchard and other peers and communities, I had been involved in: the conceptual and technical development and transfer of the digital infrastructure of TITiPI; writing and reflecting; the Operations Room at Hangar; the interdependent Etherpad collector script Burrow; INFRA RESISTANCE actions.

The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) is a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists initiated by Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting. We convene communities to articulate, activate and re-imagine together what computational technologies in the “public interest” might be when “public interest” is always in-the-making. We develop tools from feminisms, queer theory, computation, intersectionality, anti-coloniality, disability studies, historical materialism and artistic practice to generate currently inexistent vocabularies, imaginaries and methodologies. TITiPI functions as an infrastructure to establish new ways in which socio-technical practices and technologies might support the public interest.

The Social Life of XG [SoLiXG] brings together researchers in anthropology, political science, queer technoscience, sociology and cultural studies from four countries to explore the imaginaries that guide the development, production and maintenance of digital infrastructures, and how they shape and reconfigure dominant notions of politics and community.